Saudi Arabia: Scheduled beheading reflects authorities’ callous disregard to human rights

[Karmadillo]

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/saudi-arabia-scheduled-beheading-reflects-authorities-callous-disregard-human-rights-2014-08-22

Saudi Arabia: Scheduled beheading reflects authorities’ callous disregard to human rights
22 August 2014

The current surge in executions in Saudi Arabia is continuing unabated with another beheading scheduled for Monday 25 August, said Amnesty International today.

The planned beheading of Hajras al-Qurey will be the 23rd execution in the last three weeks -- although more could take place on Saturday and Sunday. Earlier this week the organisation called on the Kingdom to halt all executions after four members of the same family were beheaded for “receiving drugs”.

“The execution of people accused of petty crimes and on the basis of ‘confessions’ extracted through torture has become shamefully common in Saudi Arabia. It is absolutely shocking to witness the Kingdom’s authorities callous disregard to fundamental human rights,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.

“The use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe.”

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[DirkGently]

1. Saudi Arabia gets a pass because it plays ball.

Brutal treatment of women, harsh enforcement of extremist religious law, more real ties to terrorism and 9/11 than anywhere we've gone to war or threatened to. But they make nice with the upper echelons of our government and with American business interests, so we pretend we don't see any of that. We don't destabilize, we don't sanction, we don't condemn. We rarely even comment.

[Live and Learn]

2. If they are our friends, it is okay to behead.

Just as, if we are doing the torturing, it is okay.

The hypocrisy astounds.

[SummerSnow]

3. But were allies with them, a country that executes for petty crimes.

[Live and Learn]

4. Amazing that this thread is going almost unnoticed. nt

[DirkGently]

5. It's like Saudia Arabia has an invisibility cloak. n/t

[Live and Learn]

6. Yeah, I think it is called oil. nt

[nilesobek]

10. Oh no. I'm not ignoring this.

Who taught the USA to torture people? Was it the Saudis?

The King was just calling for the destruction of ISIS based on their mass beheading and torture. Maybe we were getting bad torture advice from these barbarians after 9/11.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. I really can't wait until the Arabian people take the Saudi out of Saudi Arabia

Of course, I doubt any one there is starving, so it might be a while.

[SoapBox]

8. ...savages.

[NewJeffCT]

9. But, witchcraft & sorcery are very serious crimes

and, any cases of both, or either, must be met by beheadings, and then hopefully a sacred ritual to prevent some sort of necromantic rise from the dead afterwards. They're doing their part to stop a potential zombie apocalypse. Are you?